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Daniel Emrich: Great Falls’ Extreme Senator You’ve Never Heard Of

by Ken Toole | March 15, 2025 | Elections, Legislature | 0 Comments

Republican Daniel Emrich was elected to the Montana Senate in 2022. He ran a low key campaign, defeating incumbent, centrist Democrat Tom Jacobson by 403 votes. Looking at his campaign contributions, he received significant support from “traditional”...

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Who Says Republicans Don’t Want To Sell Off Public Lands?

by Ken Toole | March 5, 2025 | Legislature | 0 Comments

Meet Great Falls Republican Senator Daniel Emrich Great Falls Senator Daniel Emrich sponsored SB 381 which directs the Montana Department of Natural Resources Conservation (DNRC) to sell certain public lands. The bill allows people who have lived in Montana for at...

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Fascist Bootlickers

by Helena Lovick | February 27, 2025 | Elections | 0 Comments

This month, several Republican Montana Legislators voted in favor of House Joint Resolution 7 (HJ 7), a resolution congratulating Donald Trump on his 2024 victory. In a disturbing, but not surprising twist, HJ 7 contains numerous clauses emphasizing how in sync and...

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Tryon and McKenney Can’t Say “Republicans Did It”

by Ken Toole | February 26, 2025 | E-City Beat Watch | 0 Comments

In the last couple of weeks, city commissioners Rick Tryon and Joe McKenney have come out in strong defense of allowing local governments to control management of their various functions. But they kept on their blindfolds and didn’t name which political...

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Rick is whining again

by Helena Lovick | February 23, 2025 | E-City Beat Watch | 0 Comments

Great Falls, Mont. In our occasional E-City Beat Watch, recently Great Falls City Commissioner Rick Tryon put up a post about a Facebook page called “The Montana Resistance”. In his blog post, Rick tried to conflate the page with the "Hate has no home here" movement,...

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E-CITY BEAT WATCH

E City Whiners

by WTF 406 Staff | Nov 7, 2023 | E-City Beat Watch, Militia and Hate Groups

The Blog Formerly...

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LGBTQ+ ISSUES

Transphobic Trebas Hateful Twitter Rant Reported by NBC

by WTF 406 Staff | Apr 27, 2023 | Elections, LGBTQ+ Issues

Earlier this week, Senator Jeremy Trebas went on an unhinged Twitter rant, using slurs and intentionally misgendering Representative Zooey Zephyr. Trebas is known for his extremely bizarre views, ranginging from his claims that the polio vaccine wasn’t necessary to his argument that hunters shouldn’t have to wear blaze orange.

Now, amidst international spotlight on Montana’s Legislative session, Trebas is doubling down on his extreme anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric. Trebas’ actions seem especially dubious given the Montana GOP’s censuring of Representative Zephyr under the guise of maintaining “decorum.”

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ELECTIONS

What Now? Long Lines At The Elections Office

by Ken Toole | Oct 29, 2024 | Elections

With a little more...

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CITY

Quit playing games with my town

by Helena Lovick | Oct 4, 2023 | City, Elections

In the end the conservative block on the City Commission did what they came to do. They picked a partisan hack to install on the library board.

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